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Mediterraneo

1991

During World War II, a ragtag squad of Italian soldiers is posted to a tiny, seemingly deserted Greek island, where the war fades away and they fall under the spell of the place and its people. A warm, wistful, Oscar-winning comedy-drama.

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Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.

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